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Alden's Manifold Cyclopedia ofKnowl
edge and Language.

one OF the most extraordinary III
erary enterprises of the age is the
work which bears the above title.
The specimen pages which the pub
Usher sends free to any applicant,
show the type which is used-a good
clear-faced Brewer; also the form
"Ideal" for convenience, easy for the
eye, handy to hold. The volumes
will average about $40 pages each,
and there will probably be about thir-
ty of them-the manifold" number
will not be convenient; when you
consult a Cyclopedia you are suppos-
ed to know what "title" you are
looking for; the lettering on the back
of each volume tells you at a glance
what titles will be found within, so
you do not look in the wrong one
and the volumes are so "handy" you
quickly turn to the sought for page.
There will be'several thousand il
lustrations-n6 amere pictures" but
everythingEof Importance that will
serve to illustrate.
The MANIFOLD CYCLOPEDIA is to
be much more than a encyclopedia of
Universal Knowledge" it will en-
body also a Dictionary of the Eng
lish Language-including every
word which has any claim to a place
in the language. How often you
have consulted Appleton's or Cham
ber's or Johnson's Cyclopedia and
failed to find the title you were look
ing for-then consulted Webster's
Unabridged and were successful; the
word belongs to the Dictionary rath-
er than to the Cyclopedia. Or you
have consulted Webster, and found
little more than a mere definition of
the Acknowledgements go tothe Cyclope-
dia Tor details of knowledge. Or,
more probable than either of the fore
going suppositions, you do not own
either a first-class Cyclopedia or a
frst-class Dictionary, or only one
of the two, because of their pro-
hibitory cost, so you Consult your
Imagination" and "go hungry" for
lack of the few lines of print that
would satisfy you! In the MANI
FOLD ENCYCLOPEDIA you will find a
survey of all knowledge which is IL
lustrated by the English Language
and its cost is within your reach, on
ly 80 cents a volume for cloth bind
ing, 65 cents for half morocco!
In this age of the world, no gener-
al Cyclopedia or Dictionary can be
in any proper sense ''original'-each
new compilation, if it has merit, is
based upon the knowledge found
embodied in all its predecessors.
acknowledge" as set forth in books,
cannot bemonopolized by patent or
"copyright''-only the form of en-
bodiment can be thus covered. The
latest discoveries (or i~maginings) of
the scientists, the latest "inds" (or
frauds) of the psychologists, the lat
est theories of the political como
mists-all are subject to the "sight
drafts" of the latest Encyclopedia.
ALDEN's MANIFOLD ENCYCLOPEDIA
undertakes to combind in the most
convenient and concise land yetfulD
and economical from possible, the re-
suit of the scholarship of the world,
up to the time of its publication.
Awaiting itself most of the labors of
its predecessors who have accomplish
ed the best results, the MANIFOLD
CYCLOPEDIA, draws more largely
from Chambers than from any other
of the family of Cyclopedias, and
more largely from Stormonth than
from any other of the family of Die
tionaries-the Chambers is an ac-
knowledged model for a ~Cyclopedia
but it is adapted particularly to Eng
glish rather than to America Stor-
month is the acknowledged peer of
Webster, Worcester, the Imperil, and
Murray, as al authority, but without
Il peer in the combined qualities of
cOnciseness, clearness and accuracy of
learning. No authorities, however,
are blindly followed, but effort is